Summer Holidays : Travelling Notes in Europe. By Theodore Child.
(Harper Brothers, New York.)—A prefatory note informs us that the sketches of which the book is composed appeared originally in various English and American periodicals ; that they have no continuity nor connection of subject, being simple souvenirs of summer holidays, " which the author hopes may find favour in the eyes of the travelling public, and also of the other public which is content to travel in an arm-chair by the fireside." These are not extravagant hopes, and will in all probability be fulfilled, for albeit the countries and places visited by the author have been visited and described times out of mind, the observant traveller 'can always tell us something new ; and Mr. Child is both an observant traveller and a pleasant writer. "A Holiday on French Rivers " (the title of one of Mr. Child's chapters) makes very good reading, and the tourist who proposes to " do the Con- tinent" cannot do better than make Summer Holidays the com- panion of his travels ; while stay-at-homes will find in its pages much that is interesting and instructive.
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